Monday, April 19, 2010

Yet another baseball-less night. Here are a few things to help pass the time.

Navin Vaswani, better know on Twitter, in the blogoverse and on occasion in our comment section as "eyebleaf" is doing a project for the Toronto Globe and Mail during which he'll travel by bus and visit all 30 Major League ballparks in 60 days. He's a Jays fan and filed his report of yesterday's Yankees and Rangers game from the refreshing perspective of an outsider. Tonight, he's off to see the Mets play the Cubs at Citi Field before he continues his journey. If, like me, you are extremely jealous of the awesome trip Navin is embarking on, you can keep up with his dispatches here.

“He wasn’t about the big superhighway and mainstream streets,” she said. “It fits his personality so much more that it would be an out-of-the-way street and be something that not a lot of people would embrace.”

More Soxenfreude, this time from Charles P. Pierce who thinks that it's not too early to panic over the Red Sox. As much as I'd like to agree with him, it is. We're only through 7.5% of the season and although they've stumbled out of the gate, they're going to find their way soon enough.

An interesting note from that game: Matt pointed out that Jiminez started throwing exclusively from the stretch after the 6th inning and didn't give up a walk after that.

Sagiv from Fire Jerry Manuel took Jon Heyman to task for saying that Andy Pettitte is going to the Hall of Fame for pretty much the same reasons he said he wouldn't vote for Bert Blyleven.

Speaking of firing Jerry Manuel, Matthew Carruth at FanGraphs took him to task for allowing not only holding back Francisco Rodriguez from pitching until the 19th inning on Saturday, but letting him warm up in every single inning before that, throwing over 100 pitches. Warm up pitches aren't imaginary, Jerry, they tax pitchers' arms too.

That guy has quite the pouty face in the pic above. Debby Downer to the right looks like the perfect mate. Lol, actually, the kid fits in nicely too.

Matt- I'm pretty familiar with HTML. If you are using the HTML insert rather than the default WISIWIG settings, I can give you the code to generate a new window upon link click. Although, personally I would think a new window for every link might get cumbersome.

pjb - Even better: if you are using Firefox or Google Chrome as a browser, you should be able to right click and open it in a new tab within the same window. That way, you can have a bunch of webpages open simultaneously without overcrowding the taskbar.

I don't like the fact that our links take you away from the homepage and I've tried to figure out how to make a universal change to the settings on the blog before (like Matt did last night) but could never find that option.